Andrea Mitchel interviews Cantor who blames Dems for the Tea Partiers’ extreme signs. I assume this was before he decided to criticize Rush. See the previous post. Watch:
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Cantor Blames Dems for Extreme Signs
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Cantor Criticizes Rush!
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Cantor who was at the Tea Party on Thursday and was silent on the hateful Dachau imagery and comparison of Nazis to Obama. However, he now critizes Limbaugh. Will he take it back? This was on Bloomberg News today:
Cantor Calls for Inclusive Party, Criticizes Limbaugh Rhetoric
By Lorraine Woellert
Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) — The second-ranking Republican in the U.S. House, Eric Cantor, criticized some comments by talk-show host Rush Limbaugh as inappropriate and said his party needs to be inclusive.
“The Republican Party in its roots is a party of inclusion and we ought to be promoting that and making sure that voices are heard,” Cantor, of Virginia, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend.
Hateful images at Tea Party
Cantor, when asked about Limbaugh’s comments that “Adolf Hitler, like Barack Obama, also ruled by dictate,” and his comparison of the administration’s health-care logo to a swastika, said the comparisons were wrong.
“Do I condone the mention of Hitler in any discussion about politics?” Cantor said. “No, I don’t, because obviously that is something that conjures up images that frankly are not, I think, very helpful.”
He also took issue with some of the harsher rhetoric of House Republican colleagues.
Cantor, 46, said Republicans must stay unified if they are to win elections. “That’s the lesson learned” from the Nov. 3 Republican gubernatorial victories in New Jersey and Virginia and the loss of a New York congressional seat in a race that divided the party, he said.
For more go here.
Cantor at Tea Party: “Not One GOP Vote”
Saturday, November 7th, 2009Cantor was at the Tea Party Protest Thursday. He made no mention of the Dachau imagery. This was in TPM:
Cantor Promises Tea Partiers: ‘Not One’ GOP Vote For Health Care
Christina Bellantoni | November 5, 2009, 1:13PM
Cantor at the Tea Party
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) made it clear at the tea party “House Call” this afternoon that President Obama won’t be getting his party’s health care vote.
“Your efforts to stop this bill are being heard loud and clear,” Cantor told the thousands gathered at the base of the Capitol in what some billed as a smaller reunion of the 9/12 rallies.
“Be assured not one Republican will vote for this bill,” Cantor said, to big cheers and shouts of “Kill the bill.”
The crowd, pulled together to try and influence conservative Blue Dog Democrats before Saturday’s vote on the House health care bill, said the Blue Dogs were critical.
Cantor told them “we will try to pick up” as many Democrats as they can to defeat the bill.
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) told them he was “standing with freedom-loving Americans” against the bill.
Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ) called the crowd “freedom fighters” who will stop the bill.
When He Hears the Roar, Cantor Trembles
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009In a post yesterday in politico about how few Republicans stand up to the extremist voices like Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh, Cantor had this to say:
“We need more voices,” said House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia, one of the party’s up-and-coming leaders. “Our party’s challenge has been that we need to be more inclusive — we need to attract the middle again. … When one party controls all the levers of power in Washington, they’re going to try and villainize whoever they can on our side. It gives us an opportunity now to try and harness the energy and point it in a positive direction, so that we can attract the middle of the country to the common-sense conservative views that we have been about as a party.”
It sounds like he wants it both ways. He talks of attracting he middle but is unwilling to stand up to the right wing and somehow blames the Democrats for the Republican extremists. Read the article in Politico.